Oasis Podcasts (Oasis Human Relations)

Carole Ann Jones and Glyn Fussell are experienced coach mentors and founders of the Oasis coaching programme. They are enthusiastic contributors to a school of thought which sees truly effective coaching as more than a set of clever techniques frameworks and approaches. In this podcast, they talk about how to work more deeply and courageously with your clients in a way that takes account of the relationship you have with them. Coaching and Mentoring with Head Heart and Soul is an exploration of what this means in practice and how you can bring more of yourself to your coaching work for your own fulfilment and for the benefit of your clients.

This is the first in a series of podcasts from Oasis School of Human Relations. Working wholeheartedly with individuals, teams and organisations for over 30 years. We offer you a rich variety of conversations, hosted by Oasis Co Director Glyn Fussell and drawing on an extraordinary network of inspirational people. All our work is about personal, professional and organisational development and being the best, you can be in an uncertain world. Themes range from reimagining the future of leadership to how to develop more presence and nurture great relationships.

Human relationships are at the heart of all of our work and during these extraordinary times we are living in, we hope you will enjoy some of the insight and experience offered in these podcasts.

In this episode, you’ll hear Nick Ellerby and Glyn Fussell, Oasis Co-Directors, discussing Team Coaching. 

If you are already established as a coach, particularly within an organisational setting, or if you've been wondering how you could use your skills and expertise to help teams, then this episode will be a particular interest to you. 

We explore what you might need to know before embarking on team coaching, the fundamental differences between coaching and the facilitation of team development and what this might look like in practice. We'll also touch on the qualities and skills that you might need when working with teams 

Nick Ellerby has been working in multidimensional culture change for over 30 years. During that time, he's worked as a coach, mentor, consultant, and facilitator locally, nationally, and internationally with a wide variety of different leaders, teams, and organisations.

Additional resources 

For those interested in developing self-managing teams and ways of working this will be of benefit - it was co-created by organisations to reflect their practice and encourage others to be more peer based and collaborative.

https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/resources/developing-practice/peerworks-a-guide-to-collaborative-working/ 

Nick referred to helpful ways of looking at team working, here are links to some of them: 

Fundamental Interpersonal Relations - developed by the wonderful Will Shutz, someone we enjoyed working with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interpersonal_relations_orientation#:~:text=The%20theory%20is%20based%20on,%2Fopenness%2C%20control%20and%20inclusion.

The Wisdom of Teams by Katzenberg and Smith - published in the 90s. Its relevance today is remarkable and we suggest related to the quality of research within it. Many of the ingredients of what makes a team, and what makes a group might be timeless. They have produced further publications and there will be no shortage of summaries on-line.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Teams-First-Printing-Katzenbach/dp/B003Q5NAKI/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E4Q8S4A5CWDZ&keywords=the+wisdom+of+words+katzenberg+and+smith&qid=1689346736&s=books&sprefix=the+wisdome+of+words+katzenburg+and+smith%2Cstripbooks%2C63&sr=1-1

For those who want a little more on team coaching…

We love the work of Centre for Creative Leadership and have had links and been partners for decades in relation to developing globally responsible leadership

https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/the-dynamics-of-team-coaching/#:~:text=Team%20coaching%20involves%20a%20single,stretch%20beyond%20their%20current%20abilities.

We also enjoy the work, encouragement and insights that Peter Hawkins brings to this field. 

Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership https://amzn.eu/d/jinpC1d

And of course feel free to drop Nick a message if you would like to discuss team coaching for you team - we have a great team of coaches here at Oasis info@oasishumanrelations.org.uk

Corinna is an experienced West End actor and also a coach. She has helped people all over the world to understand how to gain more confidence in themselves and to develop more of what is commonly called “presence.” 

Glyn is a trained actor, leadership coach and director at Oasis. He leads and facilitates Oasis programmes, and like Corinna, has many years’ experience helping individuals to develop more presence.

In this conversation, Corinna and Glyn explore what having presence means, sharing some simple techniques to help achieve better presence. Corinna and Glyn have adapted and applied techniques learned as actors into supporting people to be more confident and therefore more present whilst in meetings, in presentations and simply when entering a room. 

Their tips and advice demonstrate how relatively small changes can make a huge difference to how we are perceived.  And they help us understand how the nervous system reacts when under stress, and how to work through that to ensure presence. 

Claire Maxwell is Chair of the GRLI (Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative) and has worked extensively to help people become responsible, courageous leaders in a wide variety of different contexts around the world.

Experience has been Claire’s dearest teacher, along with the ancient Greek aphorism “know thyself”, including a willingness to dive into the more shadowy elements of the self.

In this conversation, she explores what leadership needs to look like during very uncertain times, the sort of attributes and skills leaders need and how to create an environment where these skills can be developed and valued.

Diversity and inclusion are hot topics, and can unleash powerful emotions and deep rooted beliefs. Both are challenging concepts, and it can be difficult to know where to begin: what to call someone; how to phrase something; what is acceptable and what is not; fear of causing offence. 

It’s an ever changing landscape, and can be tricky territory as a coach. So knowing how to help both ourselves and our clients find ways through is key. All with a view to understanding where we belong, and how we fit in. 

In this episode, you’ll hear coach, consultant and Performance Psychology Practitioner Mo Ford and Glyn Fussell, Oasis Co-Director, discussing the concepts of inclusion, diversity and belonging in coaching. 

Mo’s passion for equalities work puts her in the ideal position to be able to offer steps to help navigate through the language and labels associated with identity, power dynamics and reflect on where to begin with all of this as a coach. 

Additional resources 

Association for Coaching  podcast series https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/diversity_inclusion_podcast_series 

Blog post on Diversity and inclusion in coaching (focus largely on race & ethnicity)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bringing-diversity-inclusion-coaching-practices-chowdhury-he-him-/ 

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Coaching, a practical Guide Salma Shah 

https://oasiscoaching.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/blog/exploring-equality-diversity-amp-inclusion-in-coaching

https://oasiscoaching.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/blog/exploring-equality-diversity-amp-inclusion-in-coaching 

some fantastic resources from Charmaine Roche of Life flow balance coaching

https://www.lifeflowbalance.co.uk/speak-up-speak-out-podcast/ 

Oxfam inclusive language guide

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/inclusive-language-guide-621487/

There is so much more to coaching than learning models of practice and achieving a qualification. Our best teachers are our clients, with the issues they bring and their desire for change. Sometimes a deeper, more courageous approach to coaching is needed to really get to the heart of supporting them to take the steps they want to take.

In this episode, entitled “Coaching with courage and depth”, you’ll hear a conversation between Glyn Fussell and Carole-Ann Jones on what it means to be coaching with courage and depth, with the Oasis coaching manifesto as a central focus.

You could say that body has a wisdom of its own - beyond the chatter of intellect and words. It holds our history and, if we pay attention, it can help define our future paths. In working with others to help them learn, grow or heal the body can offer a rich source of data and insight. But what does this really mean to work with the wisdom of the body in practice? How as a coach, facilitator or therapist can you become more attuned to what is being communicated without words?  In this conversation we will be exploring this territory from the perspective of two practitioners working in related and different ways to help people become more resourceful and effective.

This Podcast will be great for you if you are engaged in working with others and want to deepen and extend the approach you take.  

Benita Treanor is an extraordinary practitioner, who has made it her life’s work to bring a spirit of enquiry, rigor and authenticity into her work as an executive coach, a facilitator and as a coach supervisor. She is also an assessor with the Association for Coaching and a body-centered psychotherapist.

In this conversation Benita explains what coach supervision is, how she got into it, and how important reflection in a safe space is to help us connect when working with others.

Benita shares her belief that in order to meet others where they are, it is essential that we know more about ourselves.

This podcast will be of particular interest to both new and experienced coaches.

Jane Senior has worked extensively with individuals and teams across the world as a coach and in leadership development. She has helped people become more aware of the choices they have, or that they could have through looking at where their energy is best channeled.

After an extremely debilitating illness, she learned from personal experience the importance and value of managing your energy and is now committed to endurance sports, specifically competing internationally as a tri-athlete.

In this conversation, Jane Senior shares with us her research findings on the difference between time management and energy management, recognizing the signs of low energy, and strategies to put in place to help you become more energy conscious.

In this episode, you’ll hear the audio book version of The Oasis Seven Stage Model, spoken by Oasis Co-Director Glyn Fussell. 

It’s an accessible introduction to The Oasis Seven Stage Model for effective working relationships, developed from years of research and practice by Oasis. The model is designed to help you establish, nurture and develop effective working relationships.

The Oasis Seven Stage Model provides a  simple overview of  what makes relationships work and what you might do if things go wrong . As well as offering a complete model, each of the seven stages offers specific skills that can be applied according to the needs and priorities of a relationship.

The model simplifies the realities of practice and acts as a guide to what you might do. It provides a much-needed framework to help you make decisions and be more effective, as well as transferable skills and understanding which can be applied to your work with people, as well as projects, systems and processes.

The written version of The Oasis Seven Stage Model can be found HERE

Challenging or difficult conversations are not something that most of us relish. Generally, none of us like conflict with others, and we tend to put off the challenging discussion that we might need. But what if we were able to say exactly what we need to say, clearly and straightforwardly to another person without destroying our relationship with them?  However hard that may feel, there are ways of making it more manageable for yourself and more effective in creating the best solution in the long run.

In this episode, “The art of challenging conversations” you’ll hear coach, facilitator and focused mindfulness practitioner Jane Bytheway in conversation with  Oasis Co-Director, Glyn Fussell discussing what can help and how to approach more challenging conversations in ways that really work.

At this point in time, how we regard ourselves as human beings and our sense of what it takes to live and work with others has never been more important.  At the centre of all of this are our relationships with one another; what they mean now and what they will need to mean in an uncertain future where the potential for conflict is on the rise.

In this episode Glyn Fussell is in conversation with Marion Ragaliauskas who is a Co-Director of Oasis School of Human Relations. Over the last 25 years, she has been a key contributor to the development of a school of thought that places the people and their relationships with one another centre stage.  Marion has worked extensively with individuals, groups and with whole organisations to help them become freer and more effective in the way they work with others.

In this episode, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Oasis Associates and coaches Jane Bytheway and Carole-Ann Jones as they discuss the benefits of taking a coaching approach at work. 

In today's rapidly evolving and changing world of work, leaders cannot be expected to have all the answers. So there is a need to find a way of untapping the potential of others, embracing a shift in mindset towards taking a more developmental approach, so we can get the best from the people we work with, and in turn, deliver great results. 

Together, Glyn, Jane and Carole-Ann explore the true benefits of work based coaching, address some challenges that can arise, and the factors that support this kind of approach in practice. 

This episode will be great for you if you are wanting to create a coaching culture within your organization, or if you're a leader or manager who wants to learn this brilliant skillset. 

Oasis Human Relations offers a two day programme for organisations wanting to create an empowering coaching culture, which you can find here: https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/programmes/leader-as-coach/

The third of four short episodes in our mini-series on resilience for coaches. This series will focus on resilience over three key areas: the head (mental resilience); the heart (emotional resilience); and the soul (spiritual resilience). 

How we feel is incredibly important and can impact our lives and decision making in so many ways. The quality of what we feel can influence how we perceive ourselves, others, and life in general. 

In this episode Glyn Fussell and resilience coach Jane Bytheway explore what we mean by emotional resilience. Jane offers tools and techniques that may help you strengthen your emotional resilience which in turn will help you support your clients.

Additional resources 

Ted Talk by Michael Bungay Stanier on ‘How to Tame your Advice Monster’ https://youtu.be/Kl0rmx7aa0w    

Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit (book) 

Time to Think by Nancy Kline (book) 

The Coaching manual by Julie Starr (book) 

Coaching for performance by John Whitemore (book)

The Oasis Seven stage model (pdf) & audiobook

Speaking about the future can make us uneasy, particularly as we are currently living through some exceptionally challenging times politically, environmentally, and socio-economically. It can be difficult to see a way forward and as coaches it can be tricky to know how to help our clients find their way through these turbulent times.

In this episode, “Hope in a time of collapse” you’ll hear author, Oasis Associate and Director of the Oasis Foundation Chris Taylor and Glyn Fussell, Oasis Co-Director, discussing what we need to face into the uncertainty we are living with in such massive issues as climate change, pandemics, and the end of our civilization as we know it.

Grief and loss are part of everyday life. We all know that. But over the last year, perhaps more than ever before, our sense of loss and grieving for “normal life” has been in evidence due to COVID. Coaching and Executive Development has been very much in demand, as we try to navigate our way through our heightened sense of loss and grieving. As a coach, this is a landscape that can be tricky to handle.

In this episode, entitled “Coaching through grief and loss,” you’ll hear Oasis Co-Director Glyn Fussell reflecting on his experience of coaching clients through periods of grieving and sadness, how to still be of service to the client as their coach, and the need to take care of yourself in the process.